How effective is the Introduction [paragraphs 1-3] at introducing the topic of early African American poets?

A-It is ineffective because it shows the experience of early African American poets but not how they affected later poets.

B-It is ineffective because it explains an anecdote about civil rights that is unrelated to the topic of African American poets.

C-It is effective because it describes the effects that Jim Crow laws had on the earliest African American poets in the American colonies.

D-It is effective because it uses an example of a later well-known poet who continued the tradition of early African American poets.